Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Bluetooth, AVRCP and Rhythmbox

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 13:15 +0200, John Frankish wrote:
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> So, using xev to make up an .Xmodmap that looks like this:
> 
> keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
> keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
> keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
> keycode 168 = XF86AudioPlay
> 
> i.e. completely different to that reported by evtest...

evtest reports Linux keycodes, you're binding X.org keycodes. They're
different.

My guess is that the keymap you selected in X is ancient, and doesn't
bind the multimedia keycodes. This should work out of the box on recent
distributions.